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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is giving consideration to extending the cut to excise duty on petrol and diesel beyond the end of February 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3950/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a VAT-related matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4042/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (31 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 400. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when operational schedules for the rifle range at Gormanston Army Camp will return to regular publication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4465/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the expected overpayment of income tax by PAYE workers in each of the years 2019 to 2022; the steps that the Revenue Commissioners takes to ensure that people understand that they may be due a refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3396/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Do the witnesses have a view on the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's indigenous enterprise review, which was published recently? It pointed up a lot of problems with our indigenous enterprise base. It refers to low productivity and what might be done with the research and development situation. I will put that first to the ESRI and then Mr. Coffey might respond.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: The experience over many decades has been that is has been difficult to enable microbusinesses or SMEs to scale up sufficiently where they are getting seriously involved in exporting, which is where the added value is and is where they become more productive and of greater benefit by adding higher value jobs and so on. When plans were first announced to revise the indigenous enterprise...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: It is a dynamic situation.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Yes, that was back in 2015.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I thank Dr. McGuinness.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the 9% reduced VAT rate on electricity and gas bills to 31 December 2023; if he will provide costings for extension of the measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3084/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and look forward to engaging with him in his position as Minister for Finance. I also extend my congratulations to the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, on her appointment and look forward to working with her. I want to establish with the Minister the cost to the Exchequer of extending the reduced 9% VAT rate on electricity and gas...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I believe that because of the arguably short-term thinking of the Government, once the €4 billion in once-off measures melted away in January, families started to feel the pinch. We know that the families who are most exposed to energy poverty are those on low incomes, lone parents, older people living alone and people who are living in rural areas. The final electricity credit will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: We have a cost-of-living crisis and inflation is high. One of the perverse things is that when inflation is high and goods and services are more expensive, the Exchequer is laughing all the way to the bank with increased VAT returns. It is important to reflect on that and to pass back as much as possible of that increase, or bonanza, to those who need it most by way of an extension of...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: There is a donation of service and there is a commercial value to be placed on that. That is a matter that will be determined in time by the Standards in Public Office Commission. I hope it does its work expeditiously. I maintain it is a fiction that this donation of a service that has a commercial value, which is a donation, was given to Fine Gael Dublin Central, because that would...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: Of course, the commercial value is not the value that Mr. Stone or the Minister would ascribe to the service the Minister describes and what he wants it to be but, rather, what it would cost him on the open market to obtain that particular service. We would prefer if we were here today talking about housing and health, for example, the issues that affect everybody's everyday lives and go to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of those with company cars over the financial impact of changes to the benefit-in-kind regime which came into force this month; if he is considering measures to assist such workers to mitigate the additional costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3088/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of a report (details supplied) detailing that Ireland’s richest 1% control a quarter of the country’s wealth, he will review the Government’s approach to taxes on wealth as suggested in the Labour Party’s alternative budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned about the impact on households of the increased costs of servicing mortgages on homes as a result of rising interest rates; if he is considering any policy interventions to assist mortgage-holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3087/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider revisiting the decision to end the zero VAT rating on antigen testing kits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if young refugee students from Ukraine who are due to sit State examinations in 2023 and 2024 and will soon be making CAO applications and seeking SUSI support students will be treated as EU or Ukrainian citizens in the calculation of their college fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2914/23]